Saturday, May 25, 2019
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City Controller calls for action on vacant school buildings owned by the Philadelphia School District.
City Controller Alan Butkovitz today accused the School District of Philadelphia of letting eight shuttered district buildings deteriorate into dangerously unsafe condition, and called the empty facilities “catastrophes waiting to happen.”…
City Council members perturbed by facilities closures that are detailed in leaked School District document
The already dysfunctional relationship between City Hall and the School District of Philadelphia was further complicated this week when the Public School Notebook published a leaked draft version of the district's…
Special Report: A surprising mix of bricks, mortar and imagination
On a six-block stretch of Berks Street just east of Temple University, the past, present and future of low-income architecture and urban planning is on display. It is a mixed picture.…
